Life on Lamars

Colorado town takes on eponymous senator over wind power 0

In a fabulous bit of word play worthy of the best geeks among us, the town of Lamar, Colorado, has launched a letter-writing campaign to convince Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee to support wind power.

Just so happens Lamar I is home to more than 100 turbines, and pretty darn happy about it. In fact, a group of ranchers is planning to build another facility this year. But Lamar II has lately been raising a federal stink about the "puny ... high-cost" energy source.

I ain't sayin' who's right and who's wrong. But it seems like those ranchers know puny when they see it.

Katharine Wroth is a senior editor at Grist.

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